put the verbs in the brakes in the past simple or the past continuous. Last year we were living in Arizona, in the USA. One day I ............. (look after) my four - year - old sister, Lily, because my parents ........... (be) out. She............ (sit) in the garden and I........... (paint) the door of our house. I............ (stand) on a ladder with a pain brush in my hand when I........... (see) a black and yellow snake in the grass which was going towards my little sister. I immediately ............(start) to come down the ladder. When I.......(get) to the bottom of the ladder, Lily........ (hold) the snake. I screamed and Lily........(drop) the snake and it........ (crawl) away fast.
